http://news.techworld.com/security/3357186/amnesty-uk-website-hacked-serve-lethal-gh0st-rat-trojan/ By John E Dunn Techworld 11 May 2012 Amnesty International’s UK website was hacked to host the dangerous Gh0st RAT Trojan for two days this week, security firm Websense has revealed. Attacking browsers unpatched against the common CVE-2012-0507 Java vulnerability (also used by the Mac Flashback Trojan), between 8 and 9 May visitors would have been at risk of downloading a Windows executable hiding behind a valid VeriSign-issued digital certificate. Anyone clicking Ok to this install trick would have become infected with Gh0st RAT, a potent backdoor Trojan used to cull passwords and files and just about anything else the attacker wants to take from the infected system. The injected web code was removed after Websense alerted Amnesty to the issue. [...] _______________________________________________ LayerOne Security Conference May 26-27, Clarion Hotel, Anaheim, CA http://www.layerone.orgReceived on Mon May 14 2012 - 00:03:11 PDT
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